Pandora hires Piper Crowell, leaving office of Rep. Jared Huffman, D-Calif., as manager-government relations ... Sunlight Foundation hires Kat Duffy, leaving State Department Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Bureau, as director, Sunlight Labs, effective Nov. 30 ... National Association of State Utility Consumer Advocates hires David Springe, Kansas Citizens’ Utility Ratepayer Board, as executive director, effective Dec. 5 ... Federated Wireless hires Jeannie Diefenderfer, ex-Verizon Wireless, as adviser to the executive leadership team ... Madison Square Garden Co. hires Colin Ingram, ex-Colin Ingram Ltd., as executive vice president, MSG Productions ... Weather Co. hires Elliott Trice, ex-VivaKi, as senior vice president-consumer product, dealing with Web, smartphone, tablet and emerging technologies ... Cogobuy Group, Chinese e-commerce platform provider, hires Shipeng Li, ex-Microsoft, as chief technology officer.

FTC Bureau of Competition Deputy Director Steve Weissman leaving the agency for Baker Botts; agency hired from that firm for the bureau Chuck Loughlin as deputy assistant director and deputy chief trial counsel, Litigation Group; Markus Meier moves to bureau's acting deputy director; at the bureau Assistant Director-Mergers III Phill Broyles retiring at year's end; and Dominic Vote moves to deputy assistant director-mergers II ... Comcast hires Robert Eatroff, leaving Morgan Stanley, as executive vice president-global corporate development and strategy, effective in January, succeeding Alexander Evans, who joins ex-Comcast Chief Financial Officer Michael Angelakis at the new "strategic company" Angelakis formed in partnership with Comcast to invest in "growth-oriented companies" (see 1505110036), and also succeeding Senior Vice President-Corporate Development Bob Pick, retiring at year-end but consulting for the company on special projects ... Internet Association hires Dusty Brighton, ex-Stateside Associates, as vice president-state government affairs.

Comcast promotes Lynn Charytan to executive vice president-general counsel, Comcast Cable ... National Governors Association hires Scott Pattison, National Association of State Budget Officers, as executive director-CEO, effective Dec. 1 ... Financial Services Roundtable hires Murray Kenyon, ex-NSA, as senior vice president, and Heather Hogsett, ex-National Governors Association, as vice president-technology and risk strategy, both to Bits team, expanding group's work on cybersecurity, technology and other issues ... Neal Cohen, ex-Orbital ATK, and Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority agreed he won't be considered anymore to be general manager, WMATA said ... FirstNet hires as regional tribal government liaisons Margaret Muhr, ex-Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians emergency official, and Adam Geisler, La Jolla Band of Luiseño Indians.

Wilkinson Barker hires trademark expert Ronnie Raju, ex-Miles & Stockbridge, as of counsel ... Cox Media Group hires Karen Bennett, ex-YP, as senior vice president-chief human resources officer, effective Nov. 9, succeeding Deborah Thomas, retiring ... Kudelski Group hires Rich Fennessy, ex-Fishnet Security, as group senior vice president and CEO-Kudelski Security, whose former head Christophe Nicolas is named group chief information officer ... PwC US hires Michael Jackson, Firebreak Partners, as senior adviser, public sector practice, working on cyber, other issues ... Trusted Media Brands, formerly Reader's Digest Association, hires Alec Casey, ex-Bloomberg, as chief marketing officer ... Lobbyist registrations: Dropbox, The Glover Park Group, effective Oct. 1 ... Verifone, Upstream Consulting, effective Oct. 29.

Novatel Wireless hires as CEO FirstNet board Chairwoman Sue Swenson succeeding Alex Mashinsky, who the company said was "terminated" and is leaving the board ... Neustar hires Peter Burke, ex-Arris, as senior vice president-engineering and operations ... Comcast hires Maria Isabel Figueroa, ex-Sony Pictures Latin America & Brazil, as vice president-marketing, Telemundo Network.

Software and Information Industry Association hires Chris Mohr, ex-Meyer Klipper, as vice president-intellectual property and general counsel ... Greg Shannon, cybersecurity expert from Carnegie Mellon University, assigned to White House Office of Science and Technology Policy as assistant director-cybersecurity strategy, National Security and International Affairs Division ... Qualcomm hires Brian Modoff, ex-Deutsche Bank Securities, as executive vice president-strategy, M&A and ventures, new position ... GTT Communications hires Gina Nomellini, ex-One Source Networks, as chief marketing officer, and Brent McCutchin, also ex-One Source Networks, as senior vice president-global service delivery ... Palo Alto Networks hires Nick Urick, ex-FireEye, as vice president-federal sales ... RingCentral adds to board Allan Thygesen, Google ... Lobbyist registrations: Mobile messaging app company reTXT, Becker & Poliakoff, effective Oct. 1 ... Verizon, Creative Government Solutions, effective Oct. 1.

L-3 Communications hires Christopher Kubasik, ex-Seabury Advisory Group, as president-chief operating officer, new position ... Spectrum Equity, investor in Internet, software and information services companies, hires Brian Regan, leaving Shutterfly, as managing director-chief financial officer ... Hearst Television's WAPT Jackson, Mississippi, President-General Manager Stuart Kellogg retiring, effective at year's end ... Software company Synopsys hires cybersecurity expert Howard Schmidt, also of Ridge-Schmidt Cyber, as security adviser, new position ... American Intellectual Property Law Association 2015-16 board includes: Denise DeFranco, Finnegan Henderson, president; Mark Whitaker, Baker Botts, president-elect; Myra McCormack, Johnson & Johnson, first vice president; Sheldon Klein, Gray Plant, second vice president; David Ruschke, Medtronic, secretary; and John Hornickel, PolyOne, treasurer; newly elected regular board members are Gregory Allen, 3M Innovative Properties, Monica Barone, Qualcomm, James Hallenbeck, Schwegman Lundberg, and Thomas Moga, LeClairRyan ... Next Generation 9-1-1 Institute elects to board Catherine Bishop, OnStar, Daryl Branson, Colorado 9-1-1 Resource Center, and Rebecca Murphy Thompson, Competitive Carriers Association.

Scripps Networks Interactive promotes Dylan Jones to executive vice president-chief communications officer, succeeding Mark Kroeger, who remains senior adviser to CEO ... 21st Century Fox hires Jonathan Bing, ex-Bing Communications, as senior vice president-corporate communications, new position ... Trimble hires Sachin Sankpal, ex-Honeywell, as senior vice president-sector head, managing issues including intelligent transportation ... SentinelOne hires Scott Gainey, ex-Palo Alto Networks, as senior vice president-chief marketing officer ... Metaswitch hires Pablo Strika, ex-Mavenir Systems, as regional vice president-sales, Central and Latin America ... Sharp Imaging and Information Co. of America promotes Dave Dwyer to vice president-supply chain and operations, for Sharp's consumer and business product subsidiaries ... X-Lab names Sean Vitka, legislative counsel for Credo Action and senior fellow for Demand Progress, a fellow ... Navidar, investment banking firm, hires Kenneth Bresnen as managing director for software, electronics, Internet, e-commerce, specialty manufacturing and technical professional services sectors ... TouchCare, telemedicine app, adds to board Bob Kerrey, ex-Democratic U.S. senator from Nebraska, now at Allen & Co., and Brad Wilson, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina.

GSMA moves John Giusti to chief regulatory officer, effective Nov. 1, succeeding Tom Phillips, who remains a special adviser to the group ... Jenner & Block hires Nancy Libin, ex-Wilkinson Barker, as partner, Privacy and Information Governance Practice, working on issues including cybersecurity and privacy ... Yahoo hires Bob Lord, ex-Rapid 7, as chief information security officer ... Univision Communications hires Delia Rodríguez, ex-Verne, as deputy managing editor-audience engagement, Univision Digital ... Lobbyist registrations: KinetX, National Group, effective Jan. 12 ... American Society of Media Photographers, Meyer Klipper, effective June 6 ... Dropbox, Franklin Square Group, effective Sept. 8.

Lerman Senter hires media and communications lawyer Paul Cicelski, ex-Pillsbury Winthrop ... Interactive Advertising Bureau promotes Joe Laszlo to vice president-industry initiatives ... Drexel Hamilton hires for semiconductor research from Ascendiant Capital Markets Cody Acree as senior equity analyst and David Williams as equity research associate ... Discovery Communications promotes Sara Helman to vice president-development & production, TLC ... Intelsat adds to board CEO Stephen Spengler, succeeding Denis Villafranca, who resigned ... Lobbyist registration: National Association of Software and Services Companies, Wexler & Walker Public Policy Associates, effective July 1.